Category Archives: Biotechnology

“Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.”–Stanley Marcus

The 2019 Consumer Electronics Show is underway in Las Vegas. Considering the 180,000 attendees, perhaps we should be calling it the Statistics Electronics Show, per Stanley Marcus

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“Land on Mars, half a million dollars–a round trip ticket. It can be done.”–Elon Musk

“It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.”–Ray Bradbury

Even as NASA successfully deployed its latest Mars lander, Elon Musk was reasserting his intentions to go to Mars. Literally. Himself. I hope I live long enough to see if he makes it.

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–In a wide ranging interview, Elon Musk flatly stated that he doesn’t just want to send others to Mars, he wants to move there himself. He set the odds of his doing so at 70%. I’m guessing Vegas would set odds a bit longer than that.

“To me–old age is always ten years older than I am.”–Bernard Baruch

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”–Mark Twain

Ah, yes. I have attained the age at which I truly appreciate the comments of monsiuers Baruch and Twain. And I really appreciate the efforts of those who aim to keep senescence–and dentures–indefinitely in the future.

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“”The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.”–Carl Sandberg

If you circled the moon–alone–you’d probably wind up talking to it. And tonight we found out who Elon Musk plans to send around the moon as the first SpaceX lunar tourist. Undoubtedly, everbody will want a piece of him.

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“A.I. doesn’t trust us, either.”–Rana el Kaliouby, CEO, Affectiva

Get ready for all A.I., all the time. It’s the lion’s share of the news this week. After all, Rana el Kaliouby says, among other things, that it should ultimately be pervasive. In this week’s tech press, it pretty much is. I did throw in a space story, if only for accent–and maybe to appease those who’ve had enough of machine intelligence.

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“I believe we are on the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.”–Elon Musk

Yeah, well, ol’ Elon would say that. His SpaceX venture is heavily invested and involved, both with NASA and other space faring concerns, and is somewhere between trying to colonize Mars long term and actually turning a profit, near term. But in the final analysis, what they seem to be locked into is a race with Boeing to launch the first commercial manned space vehicle, and thus get back to where NASA was over 50 years ago.

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“The environment is everything that isn’t me.”–Albert Einstein

Back in the ancient days of 2014, Bill Gates predicted there will be no poor countries by 2035. Is this likely? Who knows? But it’s hard not to see that renewable energy and materials will become increasingly critical if the world is to maintain current population and economic growth rates.

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Environment–Technologies to remove and recycle carbon dioxide from the atmosphere have long been dismissed as too expensive. But a paper published this week in the journal Joule suggests that existing technology might bring the price down to as low as $94 a ton, vs. previous estimates of $1000.